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Intellectual Property Litigation

Hailed as a “go-to law firm” for intellectual property by Corporate Counsel, Dechert focuses on litigation, counseling and transactional IP matters. Decades of IP experience, combined with training in science, technology, engineering, medicine and business, gives our lawyers a level of fluency on sophisticated matters that is vital in the courtroom and at the negotiating table.

Intellectual Property Transactional and Counseling

Our transactional and counseling lawyers defend clients’ rights around the world in patent, trade secret, copyright, trademark, privacy, data protection and IP-antitrust disputes, and provide trademark and copyright counseling and prosecution services. We also negotiate licensing, development, joint venture, outsourcing, consulting and other transactions, and handle strategic patent counseling and patent cross-licensing to help maximize the value of our clients’ products and patents.

Dechert’s trial lawyers have defended significant class actions in a variety of industries. We handle every phase of a class action, from defeating certification and achieving de-certification on appeal to securing defense jury verdicts in complex class action trials. We have defeated class certification in more than 30 different state and federal jurisdictions and successfully handled class actions of every major type across industries.